Shocking Chart Compares St. Louis Neighborhood to 'World's Murder Capital'

You can play with numbers and percentages all you want to achieve the result you want. But the bottom line is that as population decreases, any crime rate is going to go up because each crime represents a larger segment of your population. Also, when there's no one left who is "worthwhile" for criminals to rob, then the only crime left is violent crime until you kill everyone off, and then you get a huge reduction in your crime rate.

I am surprised a corporation hasn't come in, bought the place up, and built it's own walled city there. If I had the money, I would do that. Make the entire portion of the city a "gated community" where the management can control many of the variables, much like a HOA (as evil as they are), complete with your own police/security force. Urban renewal.

Golly gee, do you mean that the failures could be political based... like Detroit and Washington DC?